An e-learning online course by Bhikkhu Anālayo will be offered through the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg and co-hosted by the Sati Institute for Theravāda Studies, affiliated with the Institute for Buddhist Studies, Berkeley.

The online registration for the course will be available through the University of Hamburg, beginning on the 1st of March and ending on the 15th of April. The course starts on May 3, 2012. You should sign up to audit the course through the University of Hamburg for no credit. If you wish to receive credit through the Sati Institute and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, you must register this course as independent study – please contact Nona Olivia at SITBSDean@sati.org to arrange this.

The course is open for free participation after online registration (between Mar. 1 and Apr. 15) at the University of Hamburg website (see link below). Please click on the link below for course details, dates, and syllabus:Summer semester 2012: The Arahant and the Four Truths in Early Buddhist Discourse

You can receive credit for this course through the Sati Institute and IBS through independent study. Please contact Nona Olivia at SITBSDean@sati.org to arrange this.

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Hi my pleasure to be of help. I personally don't plan to attend the course since I can read the agama in Chinese, so I don't have more info about it. Please visit the website of Sati Center for Buddhist Studies for more information: http://www.sati.org/

Pls invest in a copy of Ven Analayo's "A Comparative Study of the Majjhima Nikaya". It studies the Pali MN against nearly all of its suttas' attested parallels in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit and several Prakrits. A great deal of the parallels are in the Chinese Madhyama-agama, so his book would be a great way to introduce yourself to the Chinese MA, pending his translation of the MA (due to be released this year).

A very frightening and hair-raising work, indeed, softened at times with interesting diversions such as Xerxes and Leonidas popping into a Brahmana-vagga analysis...

Pls invest in a copy of Ven Analayo's "A Comparative Study of the Majjhima Nikaya". It studies the Pali MN against nearly all of its suttas' attested parallels in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit and several Prakrits. A great deal of the parallels are in the Chinese Madhyama-agama, so his book would be a great way to introduce yourself to the Chinese MA, pending his translation of the MA (due to be released this year).

A very frightening and hair-raising work, indeed, softened at times with interesting diversions such as Xerxes and Leonidas popping into a Brahmana-vagga analysis...

Where can this be purchased?

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++++++++++++++++This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

There is freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning. If there were not this freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning, then escape from that which is birth, becoming, making, conditioning, would not be known here. -- Ud 80

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.People live in one another’s shelter.

Be prepared for endless loops navigating their Chinese-only site, and being addressed as "Bodhisattva". You might try pleading with them for instructions in English...

After registration and ordering, their payment page needs to have the "Encoding" under the "View" tab to be altered to show up the credit card options in a legible form.

It's the Venerable's good kamma that he had so many scholars offering him unpublished transcripts of so many Sanskrit fragments, things that only get tantalisingly named as this collection or that collection in auctions or museum catalogues. It appears that the only texts that he did not translate himself were Tochanese, Uigher and Khotanese...

I see the 2012 course has started and am wondering when the talks will be available or where they are available to listen to?

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."

The copy I asked the nearest university to order for their library arrived yesterday; two volumes, nicely sized, nice paper, floppy and weighty.

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]

daverupa wrote:The copy I asked the nearest university to order for their library arrived yesterday; two volumes, nicely sized, nice paper, floppy and weighty.

Do let us know how you get on with it, Dave.

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

daverupa wrote:The copy I asked the nearest university to order for their library arrived yesterday; two volumes, nicely sized, nice paper, floppy and weighty.

Do let us know how you get on with it, Dave.

I wasn't able to find a discussion of the work here on the site; tilt, did you ever get a copy? Anyone else?

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]